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Adding fuel to the fire; I remember reading an article last year which appeared on HN, it was about how sellers create groups on facebook which offer to send people free products in they agree to give 5 star reviews. Apparently this is also a massive problem with thousands of people doing this

So not only will the reviews be for the wrong product, there is also a good chance that the reviews were bought and are fake.

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Many crappy products I've bought literally have a business card inside the package where they offer you a $5 giftcard for leaving them a 5 star review. You have to send them a screenshot of the 5 star review.

If Amazon wanted to they could stop this tomorrow. All they have to do is post on their website "If any vendor offers you money to leave a good review, send us a photo of the offer. We'll check it out, and if it's real we'll pay you double what the vendor offered and then ban that vendor from Amazon."

Less volume, less growth, so not good on paper...err shareholders charts.

They are also in telegram. Just search "Amazon reviews" in the public groups, you will find plenty of results.

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